retitle 206920 [type1] T1 fonts at huge sizes crash the Xserver
severity 206920 important
thanks
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:22:24 -0500, Branden Robinson
<branden@debian.org> wrote:
[...]
> > > 2) Reassign a bug to me without checking to see if it's duplicate
> > > first.
> >
> > I was not totally convinced it was a duplicate. But see the message
> > text. It's in there.
>
> Can you mail the bug and let me know if this is a Type1 font? (Yes, I
> know, it might be in the bug logs, but we're talking about XFree86
> now, not the GIMP.)
>
> There is a known, and already filed, bug against the XFree86 Type1
> font rasterizer.
I just found out that the Luxi fonts are in fact available (and
installed) also as Type1 fonts, not only as TTF. So all crashing fonts
are Type1. It seems your known bug is at work here. Is there a Debian
bug report for this one?
In short:
Avantgarde, Free Paladin (gsfonts), Courier, Luxi_{Mono,Serif}
(t1-xfree86-nonfree) all cause a crash of the X server.
Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana (TTFs) don't crash the X server (a lot
of swapping though, and xfd exits)
Info from my original mail:
The command I used:
xfd -fn '-*-avantgarde-*-*-*-*-*-1200000-*-*-*-*-*-*'
X configuration:
Modules "type1" and "freetype", no dedicated font server (neither xfs
nor xfstt); "nvidia" closed-source binary driver ("nv" doesn't fix it
either).
The usual blahblah:
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux gammaray.dyndns.org 2.4.21-void8.2 #1 Die Aug 5 19:01:28
> CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8
>
> Versions of packages xserver-xfree86 depends on:
> ii debconf 1.3.11 Debian configuration management sy
> ii libc6 2.3.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii xserver-common 4.2.1-10 files and utilities common to all
> ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-14 compression library - runtime
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